Introduction to ATM systems and Wind Farms
Air safety includes all the rules and processes that enable commercial and cargo aeroplanes to fly safely across the European Union. It includes rules on aircraft construction and use, infrastructure safety, data management and analysis, flying operations, and cargo. Air safety management aims to spot potential accidents and incidents before they occur. It is not the same as air security, which seeks to prevent voluntary illegal and harmful acts in the field of aviation. The wind is an increasingly important source of energy, but negative…
Introduction to Legal aspects of Air traffic management based on satellite navigation
“Air Traffic Control’s primary objective is to ensure flight safety: pilots in their cockpit are to a large extent « blind » to the exterior world and, given the aircraft speed and trajectory complexity, it is necessary to control them from the ground in order to make sure that of course there are no accidents, but also to ensure the overall fluidity and efficiency of traffic flows. Air Traffic Control (ATC) is based on two main pillars: “surveillance”, which enables ground operators to know precisely where the aircraft are, and the “controller”, who manages the safety of flights .Ever since the implementation of radars in the 70s-80s as…
Introduction to Development of a Time-Space Diagram to Assist ATC in Monitoring
Continuous Descent Approaches Continuous Descent Approaches (CDA) have shown to result in considerable reductions of aircraft noise during the approach phase of the flight (Erkelens, 2002). Due to uncertainties in aircraft behaviour, Air Traffic Control (ATC) tends to increase the minimum spacing interval in these approaches, leading to considerable reductions of runway capacity (Clarke, 2000). To enable the application of such procedures in higher traffic volumes, research has advanced in the creation of airborne tools and 4-dimensional prediction algorithms. Little research has addressed the problem of sequencing and merging aircraft in such an ap- proach, however. In this chapter we present the Time-Space Diagram (TSD) display that shows the aircraft along-track distance to the runway versus the time. On this display, the in-trail separation is presented as the horizontal distance between two predictions. It is hy- pothesised that this display will enable the air traffic controller to meter, sequence and merge aircraft flying a CDA at higher traffic volumes. In this chapter, the TSD will be introduced and the effects of various common separation techniques on the predictions of the display are discussed in detail. The display is currently being evaluated by actual air traffic controllers in a simulated traffic scenario to provide an initial validation of the design.…
Introduction to The potential of some of the innovative operational procedures for increasing the airport landing capacity
Despite continuous efforts by the air transport system operators, regulators, and researchers (academic and consultants), the problem of providing sufficient airport runway capacity to match continuously growing demand safely, efficiently, and effectively has had rather limited success. A[art from growing demand, the specific environmental (mainly noise) constraints at many large airports both in US and Europe have prevented the full utilization of the designed runway capacity. The sharp concentration of atms (air transport movements) (one atm corresponds to one landing or one take off) within the rather short time periods at the hub airports due to operating the hub-and-spoke networks has created sharp peaks causing further already existing imbalance between demand and the available runway capacity. At some other airports one of which is, for …
